Hospice Home a special place with exceptional people

Published: Monday, January 28, 2013 at 02:40 PM.

I’m writing on behalf of my family regarding our beloved grandmother, Ms. Hilda Grey Carden Pritchett. She passed away Jan. 8, 2013 at Hospice Home on Chapel Hill Road. We were blessed to have Hospice Home open its doors to her.

Hospice Home is a beautiful place. Cases of “Angels,” some crystal, some porcelain, are everywhere, hundreds of them. A very quiet, peaceful place. Their motto on a binder in grandmother’s room read, “I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.”

Hospice Home lifted not only our grandmother up, but also our family. We were greeted by Sandy to talk over the steps they would take daily to keep grandmother comfortable. Sandy offered all the coffee or anything else we might want. The staff checked on her and on us so often as we all took turns spending the nights there. They gave informative booklets to help make sense of this sad time, as only we knew our loved one was soon to go home to be with Jesus.

They put the cutest gowns on her, bathed her in calming aromatherapy baths. We were amazed at how good they were with her. It was spiritual and warm. They made it easier to let go knowing our loved one would no longer suffer and would have a new body. She was so frail from repeated years of dialysis for renal failure. Hospice staffs are real people who are concerned and know how to make those final days memorable. We were there for one week. I watched grandmother sit there so sweet soaking up all of the love and attention like a sponge.

Our family would like to thank the Hospice Home Staff — they were remarkable, supportive and inspirational. They are examples of how to live your life, helping others in time of need.

We went away from them with a better feeling of the afterlife and a sense of peace, knowing that grandmother is reborn again in Heaven with her mother whom she never knew, as she passed when grandmother was an infant.

Hospice Home, we commend you for doing the Lord’s work and helping loved ones and their families as they boost them up to Heaven with gentle hands.

I’m writing on behalf of my family regarding our beloved grandmother, Ms. Hilda Grey Carden Pritchett. She passed away Jan. 8, 2013 at Hospice Home on Chapel Hill Road. We were blessed to have Hospice Home open its doors to her.

Hospice Home is a beautiful place. Cases of “Angels,” some crystal, some porcelain, are everywhere, hundreds of them. A very quiet, peaceful place. Their motto on a binder in grandmother’s room read, “I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.”

Hospice Home lifted not only our grandmother up, but also our family. We were greeted by Sandy to talk over the steps they would take daily to keep grandmother comfortable. Sandy offered all the coffee or anything else we might want. The staff checked on her and on us so often as we all took turns spending the nights there. They gave informative booklets to help make sense of this sad time, as only we knew our loved one was soon to go home to be with Jesus.

They put the cutest gowns on her, bathed her in calming aromatherapy baths. We were amazed at how good they were with her. It was spiritual and warm. They made it easier to let go knowing our loved one would no longer suffer and would have a new body. She was so frail from repeated years of dialysis for renal failure. Hospice staffs are real people who are concerned and know how to make those final days memorable. We were there for one week. I watched grandmother sit there so sweet soaking up all of the love and attention like a sponge.

Our family would like to thank the Hospice Home Staff — they were remarkable, supportive and inspirational. They are examples of how to live your life, helping others in time of need.

We went away from them with a better feeling of the afterlife and a sense of peace, knowing that grandmother is reborn again in Heaven with her mother whom she never knew, as she passed when grandmother was an infant.

Hospice Home, we commend you for doing the Lord’s work and helping loved ones and their families as they boost them up to Heaven with gentle hands.